Escalating Further (Seeking Monthly Votes)

Feng Jun planned that once the day for entertaining the troops arrived, the Tian Family would gather intelligence on one side while he struck at the Gu Family's businesses on the other.

In the Gu Family's eyes, they were merely making reasonable use of the rules to deal with Feng Jun, who had suddenly risen to prominence.

As for confronting Feng Jun head-on... the Gu Family was not stupid. Two Innate Realm experts had already died at his hands.

Gu Maoyuan was an established Innate Realm expert, but no matter how established he was, he was still only Innate Realm, not an immortal.

The Gu Family's only strategic-level deterrent force could not be deployed lightly.

But Feng Jun found this sort of thing deeply disgusting. The Gu Family believed they were acting within the rules, but when they forcibly seized and plundered... had they respected the rules then?

He did not know how the Gu Family dealt with others, but he knew very well how they had once dealt with him.

They wanted to forcibly purchase items he had brought from Blue Star for a mere dozen or so copper coins... was that respecting the rules?

Rules were not chamber pots, to be taken out when needed and tossed aside when not.

So in Feng Jun's eyes, this was typical malicious retaliation. Perhaps they even smugly believed they were borrowing righteousness and employing an open scheme, leaving him with no choice but to meekly submit.

He could practically imagine the Yangshan Gu Family, hundreds of li away, watching him with vicious grins—trying to force my Gu Family to step forward? A few little tricks are enough to toy you to death!

What Feng Jun disliked most was an opponent's smugness.

Two more days passed. Most of the Yu Family had